Work-direction tag.



A. R. GWYNN.

WORK DIRECTION'TAG.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 5. 1911.

ii $45,457. Patented; NOV. 6, 191?.

144smumo mnuCM HLBERT R GWYNN ALBERT E. GW'YNN, OF PHOENIX, ARIZONA.

WORK-DIRECTION 'IAG.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed m 5, 191?. Serial no. 178,828.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, ALBERT R. GWYNN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Phoenix, in the county of lilaricopa and State of Arizona, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Work-Direction Tags, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanyinc drawings.

This invention relates to tags, and par ticularly to tags designed to be used with laundry and indicating the character of treatment which the laundry is to receive.

At the present time, where special treatment is necessary to be given to certain articles of laundry, it is necessary to tie a string on the article to identify 'it and the order is written on a memorandum together with the laundry mark. lVhen the operator finds this article with the string, he knows that it should receive special treatment and looks up the laundry mark on the memo randum or list of orders before the article can be properly laundried. This, of course, takes time and causes considerable trouble and inconvenience and many mistakes are made and these objections are designed to be obviated by my invention.

The general object of this invention is to devise a cheap and convenient means for indicating the treatment which any article is to receive and to specifically provide a tag which carries upon it a plurality of different direction or order indicia, the tag being so formed that a pin may be passed through the tag to attach it to the clothes or article and the position of the pin will indicate what particular order or direction is to be carried out.

A further object is to provide a tag having different orders or indicia on the obverse and reverse faces of the tag and to provide means whereby the pin which holds the tag to the article by its position in the tag will indicate which of these different orders are to be performed.

Other objects will appear in the course of the following description.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a face view of one form of tag;

Fig. 2 is a view of the reverse side of this ta";

Fig. 3 is a view of the obverse face of another form of tag;

Fig. 1 is a view of the reverse face of the same tag, the figure showing the tag attached to a garment;

Figs. 5 and 6 are obverse and reverse face of 'still another form of tag.

in form. This tag on one of its faces 11 is provided vith a plurality of longitudinally extending direction indicia or orders, as for instance the words No starch, Light starch, Medium starch, Heavy starch. These words do not extend to the ends of the tags and at one end of the tag there are a plurality of perforations 12, one for each of the lines of indicia. separates other perforations 14 from the indicia carried on the facell, these perforations .1 1 being related to indicia carried on the face 15, which indicia or direction is different from that on the face 11. Thus, for instance, on the face 15, the following directions may be carried Special, Wash over, Rough dry, By hand, these directions being separated from the perforations 12 by a line 16, so as to show clearly that the perforations 1a refer to the directions on the face 15, while perforations 12 refer to the directions on the face 11.

In Figs. 3 and 4 I show another form of the device, which is precisely the same as that previously described except that the tag is circular in form. Inasmuch as the positioning of the indicia, the perforations and the lines dividing or separating the perforations from the indicia are precisely the same as that illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, the same reference characters have been used.

In Figs. 5 and 6 I show another form of tag, which in effect is the same as those previously described, except that the body of the tag is generally circular in form, but with laterally projecting wings 17 in which the perforations 12 and 1e are disposed. In order to show that the one set of tags, as for instance the circular tag shown in Figs. 3 and at can have one lot of direction indicia thereon and the tags illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6 may have different indicia, I have illustrated the tags in Figs. 5 and 6 as being provided on one face with the directions Rush, Mangle, Dry clean, Stock and on the other face with the words New neck band, No etch. bosom, Cuffs no stch., Repair. In all other ways, however, the construction shown in Figs. 5 and 6 is ex- 7 Patented Nov. 6,1917,

A vertical line 13 Referring to the construction illustrated in lugs. 1 and 2, it will be seen that in this case 1 illustrate a tag 10 which is rectangular actly the same as that shown in Figs. 1, 2 3 and 4.

The tags which have been described may be made of any suitable material, but preferably will be made of aluminum stamped or impressed so that they may be attached to the goods and remain attached thereto throughout the laundrying operation.

lVhile I have illustrated three forms of tags, it will be obvious that different forms than these may be made Without in any Way departing from the spirit of the invention.

The device is very cheap, may be readily attached and there is no necessity for distinct and different tags for each operation to be performed, but that the operation to be performed upon the article may be readily indicated by passing the attaching pin through the proper perforation. Thus, for instance, when the pin is attached through the opening 12 disposed in conjunction with the Words Light starch the operator may read ily see What operation is to be performed and because of the fact that this perforation is separated from the direction Wash over on the face 15 of the tag by means of the line 16, it will be obvious that the operator is to light starch the goods and not Wash over the goods.

Having described my invention, What I claim is An order tag having a plurality of direction indicia arranged in parallel lines on one face and a plurality of different direction indicia arranged in parallel lines on the opposite face, the tag being formed with a plurality of perforations disposed at one end of the first named set of direction indicia, and a plurality of perforations disposed at the like end of the second named set of direction indicia, each face of the tag having a line thereon separating the perforations associated With the indicia on that face from the perforations associated With the indicia on the opposite face.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature in the presence of tWo Witnesses.

G. A. GUsHMA, H. D. PERCIVAL.

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